The Japan Meteorological Agency runs about 1,300 AMeDAS stations. That sounds dense, but it averages one per 17 km square. The sky in between is measured by nobody.
In one of those in-between places is the family home of Hiroyuki Fukuda, an officer of USONO inc. That is where the instruments go.
Fukuda runs this one. He is a certified weather forecaster and delivers weather commentary on NHK radio — *N Radi*, *Kyo no News*, and occasionally the Sunday programme *Children's Science Telephone Consultation*. He is also the representative of Kyokuchifu Inc., founded in 2020.
*Kyokuchifu* means a local wind — the wind that only a particular landform produces. A man who explains the sky over the whole country most days of the week is interested enough in local weather to name his company after it, and holds not one data point about the sky over his own family home.
Temperature, humidity, pressure, wind direction and speed, rainfall, solar radiation. Readings every ten minutes, recorded automatically and published on the web for anyone to see. The full history will be downloadable as CSV.
Why do it? Honestly, not for any practical purpose. It is curiosity: if you turn one place's sky into ten years of numbers, something might show up. Whether it turns out useful will be clear in ten years. If it doesn't, the data still exists.
We are raising the cost of the instruments, the installation, and ten years of connectivity and maintenance. Observation is harder to continue than to begin. A record that stops partway is worth less than half, so the ten years are secured at the start.
[This page is a prototype. All amounts, specs, and dates are placeholders.]